[mythtv-users] Australians: can you help me gather some data?

[Anthony Giggins]

On 12 November 2013 22:21, Xander Victory <lexvictory at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>
> On 12/11/2013 2:44 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
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> On 11 November 2013 19:02, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Xander, I too would be glad to help, but you may be over-estimating
>> people's abilities to download and compile code. I have no idea how to
>> download all those files from github and hardly, hardly ever compile
>> anything. If you could make it a bit easier to get the software and run it
>> then you might get a bigger response.
>>
>>  Also, just thought I'd mention that Shepherd does a great job in
>> providing guide data in Australia, though you probably already know that.
>>
>>
>  If you really want this data I would suggest setting this up in a ppa or
> an rpm, also maybe provide a script to generate the channels.conf from the
> mythtv database
>
>  as I'm getting errors making this, perhaps as ubuntu uses zlib1g-dev
> instead of libz-dev ?
>
>
> I'm not 100% on etiquette for reply to multiple people, so I hope you all
> see this!
>
>
> >How quickly do you need this information?
> No rush for me; it works nicely for me, but just won't work outside of
> Perth - depends on how soon you guys wanna give it a go.
>
> Apologies about the skill level.
> I'll look into making a ppa or something - I run Gentoo, so it's a bit
> foreign to me (I've not made packages for Ubuntu).
> What is the most common version of Ubuntu with you all? I've got a Saucy
> chroot install available, so need to know if I need to go older.
> Failing that I'll do a step by step Ubuntu based guide.
>
> Managed to compile rb-download statically (just now), so hopefully it
> works on other systems. (contains both 32bit and 64bit versions)
> http://xandervictory.id.au/rb-download-static.tar.bz2
>
> this should suffice, probably no need for a ppa if your not a ubuntu user


> As for channels.conf, it's not really worth writing a script to do it;
> dvdscan generates it quite easily.
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Dvbscan
> If you don't want to install more stuff, and aren't afraid of a mysql
> query, I can give an SQL query that gives me similar info (though I've only
> tested it on a 0.25 schema)
>
> Happy to test your SQL query against 0.27 schema but dvbscan is easy
enough to use

>
> >Also, just thought I'd mention that Shepherd does a great job in
> providing guide data in Australia, though you probably already know that.
> Indeed, I've not really used it (apart from testing); I used to use
> OzTivo's data.
> This project means I don't rely on either of those services; it just gets
> the schedule from the dvb data and processes/augments it to provide good
> listings. Also with a couple of patches it allows me to use the eit info to
> extend a recording if it goes over! And the schedule is more accurate (it
> gets updated when the networks run behind)
>

You could work the other way and intergrate this EIT Data into shepherd, as
they already provide a framework to augment the data they receive from
various online sources.

Still gettings some errors running this

seven at mythtv:~$ ./rb-download-x64 -b downloaded any
Unable to open channels.conf file

seven at mythtv:~$ ./rb-download-x64 -f channels.conf -b downloaded any
Timeout reading /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
Unable to read SDT

dvbscan was able to use this fine
ie. scanning /usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/au-Brisbane
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'

Cheers,

Anthony
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